Lucia Newman (born 18 February 1952 in London) is a broadcast journalist, currently working for Al Jazeera English.
In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding".
In 1997 she became the first US media correspondent to be allowed to open a news bureau in Cuba, where she lived for nine years while also covering other parts of Latin America.
In 2013 alone, she has conducted studio-interviews, for the series Talk to Al Jazeera, with the President of Uruguay and the former President of Chile and has presented, for the series Al Jazeera Correspondent, an extended piece of reportage on the curious institution that is the Colonia Dignidad, as well as conventional news-reporting, as a correspondent in several countries, plus live studio-links.
[9] When they met,[10] all foreign journalists and diplomats were housed at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow,[10] to make it simpler for the Russian government to keep tabs on everyone.
[10] Her mother, Lucia Meza, was a junior cultural attaché and her father, Joseph Newman, was[8] bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune.
[11] Both parents eventually had to leave Moscow: her father, for criticising the regime and her mother when Chile severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
The family moved to Bronxville, NY, when the Tribune collapsed after an extended strike, bringing to an end the longest-running newspaper in US history.